The Abyssinians are a Jamaican roots reggae group,famous for their close harmonies and promotion of the Rastafari movement in their lyrics.
Third World is a Jamaican reggae fusion band formed in 1973. Their sound is influenced by soul,funk and disco. Although it has undergone several line-up changes,Stephen "Cat" Coore and Richard Daley have been constant members.
Mystic Man is the fourth studio album by Peter Tosh. All songs were composed by Peter Tosh. It was released in 1979 by Rolling Stones Records,EMI,and Intel Diplo.
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown is a dub studio album by Augustus Pablo and King Tubby,released in 1976. It features Carlton Barrett on drums,Robbie Shakespeare and Aston Barrett on bass guitar,and Earl "Chinna" Smith on guitar. Pablo produced the album and played melodica,piano,organ and clavinet. The album was recorded at Randy's in Kingston,Jamaica. A distinctly different mix of the title song with vocals and dub,titled "Baby I Love You So",can be found on the Jacob Miller and Augustus Pablo 1975 album,Who Say Jah No Dread.
Heartbeat Records is an independent record label based in Burlington,Massachusetts. The label specializes in Jamaican music.
Blood and Fire is a British reggae record label specialising in reissues of 1970s dub.
Clive Hunt is a Jamaican reggae multi-instrumentist,arranger,composer and producer.
Leroy Sibbles is a Jamaican reggae musician and producer. He was the lead singer for The Heptones in the 1960s and 1970s.
Carlton and the Shoes are a Jamaican vocal group who had their greatest success in the late 1960s,as rocksteady gradually became reggae and are still active in 2008,most notably in Japan and Jamaica. The group had several Studio One recorded hits in Jamaica,most notably "Love me Forever" in 1968.
Earl "Chinna" Smith,a.k.a. Earl Flute and Melchezidek the High Priest,is a Jamaican guitarist active since the late 1960s. He is most well known for his work with the Soul Syndicate band and as guitarist for Bob Marley &the Wailers,among others,and has recorded with many reggae artists,appearing on more than 500 albums.
Basque Dub Foundation,more often known as B D F,started in the early 1990s as studio project by Iñaki Yarritu,a London-based reggae musician originally from the Basque Country. Iñaki moved into music production in the late 1980s,having been previously involved in Reggae since the late 1970s as a radio DJ,journalist and promoter. In their early days BDF toured as a sound system,supporting Mad Professor in the first dub sessions to take place in Spain.
Forward is The Abyssinians' third album,released in 1982.
The soundtrack to the film Rockers was released in 1979.
Huford Brown,better known by the stage name U Brown,is a reggae deejay who released eleven albums between 1976 and 1984.
Neville Beckford,better known as Jah Woosh,was a Jamaican reggae deejay and record producer,primarily known for his work in the 1970s.
Jarret Lloyd Vincent,better known by one of his stage aliases Bim Sherman,was a Jamaican musician and singer-songwriter.
Pick a Dub is a 1974 album by Jamaican producer and musician Keith Hudson. Critically well received,it is widely regarded as an important work in the dub music genre which evolved out of reggae. Featuring remixes of earlier material,it focuses on heavy drums and bass guitar,with echoing vocals to underscore the intense percussive rhythm. Carlton and Aston Barrett and Augustus Pablo contributed music,while vocal fragments include Hudson,Horace Andy and Big Youth. The album was originally released under the labels of Klik and Atra,with a 1994 reissue by Blood and Fire.
Foul Play is a 1981 album by reggae singer Dennis Brown,the first of three albums to be released as part of his international record deal with A&M. The album features two tracks which have been described as "two of the greatest roots cuts in major label history",in "The Existence of Jah" and "The World is Troubled". The album was reissued on the Joe Gibbs label as a double-set with its follow-up,Love Has Found Its Way,and with both of the other A&M albums on the double-CD set The Complete A&M Years. The album mixed roots reggae tracks and sociopolitical themes with love songs such as "If I Had The World","Your Man",and a new version of one of his early hits,"If I Follow My Heart". Klive Walker,in his book Dubwise:Reasoning from the Reggae Underground suggested that the lyric of "If I Had the World" suggests that Brown was already using cocaine at the time that the album was recorded.
King David's Melody is a reggae compilation album by Augustus Pablo,originally released in 1983 on his Rockers record label.
Revelation Time is an album by Max Romeo,released in 1975. It was re-released by United Artists Records in 1978 as Open the Iron Gate.
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